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GENEALOGICAL    MEMORIALS 


OF 


Lieut.-Gov.   JACOB    LEISLER. 


GENEALOGICAL    NOTES 


RELATING   TO 


Lieut.-Gov.  JACOB  LEISLER, 


AND    HIS    FAMILY    CONNECTIONS 


IN 


NEW    YORK. 


By   EDWIN   R.  PURPLE, 

LIFE  MEMBER  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  GENEALOGICAL  AND  BIOGRAPHICAL  SOCIETY. 


NEW    YORK: 
PRIVATELY     PRINTED. 

1877. 


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Reprinted  from  the  New  York  Genealogical  and   Biographical   Record  ; 

With  Additions. 


EDITION,     75     COPIES. 


THE    LEISLER    FAMILY 

IN    NEW    YORK. 


The  accounts  heretofore  published  concerning  the  family  of  Lieutenant 
Governor  Jacob  Leisler,  who  has  been  justly  styled  the  Proto-Martyr  of 

American  Independence,  have  been  when  attempted  in  detail,  in  all,  or 
nearly  all  instances  inexact.  This  was  doubtless  owing  to  the  fact  that 
until  within  the  past  three  years  the  baptismal  and  Marriage  Records  of  the 
Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  city  of  New  York,  which  contained  the  data 
for  a  correct  history  of  his  family,  were  sealed  books,  or  at  least  open  only 
to  a  favored  few.  The  publication  of  these  records  in  the  New  York 
Genealogical  and  biographical  Record  has  opened  a  wide  held  for  genea- 
logical inquiry  respecting  the  early  families  of  Xew  York,  into  which,  in  the 
present  instance,  the  writer  has  availed  himself  of  the  opportunity  of  enter- 
ing, as  a  humble  gleaner. 

By  his  marriage  to  Elsje  (Anglicized  Alice  and  Alida)  Tymens,  the  widow 
of  Pieter  Cornelisen  Van  der  Yeen,  Jacob  Leisler  became  allied  to  some 
of  the  most  prominent  families  in  New  Netherland,  and  we  proceed,  first, 
to  notice  his  wife's  family  relations. 


T  \  MENS—  VA  N  DER   VEEX. 

There  is  nothing  more  perplexing  to  one  engaged  in  tracing  the  pedi- 
grees of  the  early  Dutch  settlers,  than  the  changes  sometimes  found  in 
the  name  of  the  same  individual.  Among  these  will  be  noted  those  which 
occur  in  the  children  of  a  widow  upon  her  remarriage,  who  frequently  bear 
the  name  of  their  stepfather,  as  well  as  their  proper  Dutch  patronymic. 
Thus  the  name  of  Elsje  Elberts,  daughter  of  Elbert  Janszen  and  Elsje 
Jans,  after  her  mother's  second  marriage  to  Otto  Grim,  is  sometimes 
recorded  Elsje  Grim.  So  we  find  Elsje  Tymens,  after  the  third  marriage 
of  her  widowed  mother  to  Govert  Loockermans,  called  Elsje  Looekermans, 
as  though  she  was  his  putative  daughter  instead  of  his  step  daughter. 

Elsje  Tymens  (Thymens)  wife  of  Pietee  Corn.  Van  der  Veen  and 
daughter  of  Thymen  and  Marritje  Janszen,  was  born  in  New  Amsterdam. 
Her  father  was  a  ship  carpenter  and  must  have  come  to  New  Netherland 
as  early  as  1633,  perhaps  with  Director  General  Wbuter  Yan  Twiller  in 
April  of  that  year.  On  the  16th  of  A]iril  1639,  then  aged  36  years,  he 
made  before  Secretary  Cornells  Van  Tienhoven,  with  Jacob  HofTelsen 
(Stoffelsen ?),  overseer,  aged  about    57  years,  and  Gillis   Petersen  Yan  der 


5  THE  LEISLER  FAMILY. 

Gouw,  house  carpenter,  aged  27  years,  a  deposition  in  regard  to  the 
dilapidated  state  of  the  Fort,  and  the  bad  condition  of  affairs  generally  at 
New  Amsterdam,  at  the  time  of  the  arrival,  March  28,  1638,  of  Director 
William  Kieft  in  the  ship  Haring.'  In  1642,  he  obtained  a  patent  for 
land  on  Mespat  Kill,  L.  I.,  and  July  3,  1643,  one  for  land  on  Manhattan 
Island,  and  another,  July  13,  the  same  year  for  land  on  Long  Island.  He 
died  soon  after. 

Her  mother,  Marritje  Janszen,  was  a  daughter  of  Tryn  Jonas  (Jansen  ?) 
midwife  at  New  Amsterdam,  and  a  sister  of  Anneke  Jans  who  married — 
first,  Roelof  Janszen,  and  second,  the  Rev.  Everardus  Bogardus.  She 
married  her  second  husband,  Dirck  Corneliszen  j.m.3  van  Wensveen,  Aug. 
28,  1646,  by  whom  she  had  Cornelis  (Dirckszen),  baptized  March  17,  1647  J 
he  married  Nov.  17,  1672,  Grietje  Hendricks  of  New  York,  daughter  of 
Hendrick  Willemszen,  and  had  son  Dirck,  baptized  March  2,  1674. 
Cornelis  Dirckszen,  above  named,  deceased  before  May  1678,  and  his 
widow,  Grietje  Hendricks,  married  October,  1678,  John  Robinson,  mer- 
chant of  New  York,  and  had  Marie,  baptized  July  18,  1683,  and  Grietje 
baptized  October  12,  1684. 

Dirck  Corneliszen,  the  second  husband  of  Marritje  Janszen,  was  living  in 
August,  1647,  but  had  deceased  before  August,  29,  1648,  at  which  date  his 
widow  gave  a  power  of  attorney  to  William  Turck  and  Seth  Yerbrugge  to 
receive  certain  accounts,  &c.,  in  the  hands  of  Wouter  Van  Twiller  at 
Amsterdam.3  She  married,  third,  Govert  Loockermans,4  by  whom  she 
had  son  Jacob,  baptized  March  17,  1652.  (iovert  Loockermans  died  late 
in  1670,  of  whom  more  hereafter,  and  his  widow  was  buried  Nov.  20,  1677.6 
In  her  will,  dated  May  7,  1677,  with  codicil,  dated  Nov.  1,  she  is  styled  Mrs. 
Mary  Jansen,  widow  of  Govert  Lockermans,  and  names  the  three  children 
of  her  daughter  Elsce  Lysler  by  Peter  Cornelis  Van  der  Xeew  deceased,  as 
follows  :  Cornelius,  Timothy,  and  Margaretta,  to  whom  she  gives  the  sum 
of  one  hundred  guilders  ($40)  in  beavers,  at  eight  guilders  apiece  ;  to 
Anna,  daughter  of  William  Bogardus,  the  sum  of  fifty  guilders  in  beavers. 
Names  as  her  universal  heirs,  her  children  Elsie  Tymans,  married  with 
Jacob  Leysler ;  Cornelis  Dirkse  married  with  Grietie  Hendrickse,  and 
Jacob  Lockermans  not  married.  Makes  a  small  bequest  to  Mary  Van 
Brugh,  daughter  of  Mr.  Johannes  Van  Brugh,  and  to  Susannah  Leysler,  her 
said  daughter's  daughter.  Appoints  her  cousin,  Mr.  Johannes  Van  Brugh 
and  Mr.  Francis   Rombouts  Alderman,  of  this  city,  executors. 

Ei.sjk  Tymeks  m.  r1  Jan.  7,  1652,  Pieter  Corn.  Van  der  Veenj.  m. 
from  Amsterdam.  The  first  notice  of  him  is  found  in  the  record  of  his 
marriage.  He  was  a  merchant  in  New  Amsterdam,  admitted  to  the  rights 
of  a  small  burgher  April  1  r.  1657,  and  in  1658  was  appointed  one  of  the 
Commissioners  to  treat  with  the  Esopus  Indians.  Soon  after  his  marriage 
he  erected  the  first  brick  house  built  in  this  city,  and  situated  on  the 
present  westerly  side  of  Whitehall  between  Pearl  and  State  Streets.  He 
was  the  principal  projector,  in  company  with  Cornelius  de  Potter,  of  the 
fir^t  ship,  the  "  New  Love,"  known  to  have  been  built  at  this  port."     He 

•  Coll.  N.  Y.  Hist.  Society,  vol.  I,  New  Scries,  p.  279. 

;  Abbreviation  of  Jong  man,  a  young  man  or  bachelor.  The  abbreviation  j.  d.  after  a  woman's  name  in 
her  marriage  record  mtxasjonge  tlochter,  or  young  girl,  one  not  before  married. 

»  Cal.  N.  Y.  Hist.  MSS.  Dutch,  p.  40,  42,  49. 

4  Goverl  Loockertnans.j.  m.  van  Tumlioiit  m.  July  it.  1640.  Marritje  Jans  j.  d.  Is  it  not  probable  that 
these  are  the  persons  above  alluded  to,  and  that  j.  d.  after  her  name  is  an  error  in  the   marriage  record  ? 

6  O'Callaghan's  Hist.  New  Netherlands,  vol.  2,  p.  38. 

•  Valentine's  Manual,  i860,  p.  504. 


THE   LEISLER   FAMILY.  y 

died  in  1 66 r.    Pieter  Cornelisen  Van  der  Veen  and  Elsje  Tymens  had 
issue : 
i.  Cornelis,  bap.  October  27,  1652;  tn.  Magdalena   Wol  i  m  and 

prob.  d.    s.    p.     His  widow    111.    April    25,    1683,    I.m.muui    IIim.in    DE 
Cleyn  (de  Kleyn),  of  whom  hereafter. 

2.  Timothy,  born  1654?  There  is  no  record  found  of  his  baptism;  lie 
was  sponsor  at  the  baptism  of  Johannes,  son  of  Robert  Walters,  May  22 
16S7.  which  is  the  last  notice  found  of  him. 

3.  Margarita,  hap.  Feb.  18,  1657  ;  m.  May  15,  1682,  Is  lac  Si  ephenszen, 
mariner  of  New  York,  and  had — 1.  Margriet,  hap.  Feb.  9,  1684,  who  m. 
Sept.  12,  1700,  Symon  Pasco  (Pasko),  and  had  Symon,  bap.  July  7,  1703, 
and  Kli/abeth,bap.  Sept.  8,  1706;  2.  Pieter,  bap.  Dec.  25,  16X5  ;  3.  Eliza- 
beth, bap.  Nov.  20,  1687,  d.  young;  4.  Elizabeth,  bap.  July  30,  1690, 
who  married  March  18,  1710,  Jacobus  Mauritz,  and  had  Elizabeth,  bap. 
June  29,  1  712,  and  Elizabeth,  bap.  April  28,  1714,  who  m.  June  26,  1738, 
James  De  Hart,  and  had  Margrita,  bap.  May  2,  1739,  and  Jacoba,  bap. 
Oct.  8,  1740. 

4.  Catharyn,  bap.  June  29,  1659;  not  named  in  her  grandmother's 
will,  and  prob.  died  young. 


LEISLER. 
(first  three  generations.) 

t.  Jacob  Leisler1  (Loyseler,  T.eysler,  Leydsler,  Leydser,  Lysler),  from 
Frankfort,  came  to  New  Netherland  a  soldier  in  the  West  India  Company's 
service  in  1660.  He  embarked  in  the  ship  Otter  from  Amsterdam,  the 
27th  of  April  of  that  year.  There  was  a  tradition  among  his  descendants 
that  he  came  originally  from  France,  and  a  vague  report,  a  hundred  years 
or  so  ago  in  New  York,  that  he  was  a  Swiss.1  It  is  more  likely  that  he  was 
born  in  Frankfort,  and  was,  therefore,  a  native  of  Germany.  A  Susanna 
I  .eydser  was  one  of  the  sponsors  at  the  baptism,  Feb.  10,  1664,  of  Susanna, 
his  eldest  daughter.  The  conjecture  is  a  fair  one  that  she  was  his  mother. 
He  joined  the  Dutch  Church  in  New  Amsterdam  Oct.  2,  1661,  and  married, 
April  n,  1663,  Fl*je  Tymens,  widow  of  Pieter  (Cornelisen)  Van  der  Veen, 
who  was,  in  his  day,  a  reputable  and  wealthy  merchant  of  this  city.  He  prob- 
ably succeeded  to  the  business  left  by  Van  der  Veen,  as  a  few  years  after  his 
marriage  we  find  him  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  through  which,  and 
by  his  marriage,  he  acquired  a  large  estate,  and  was  ranked  among  the 
wealthiest  citizens  of  his  time.  In  1678,  while  on  a  voyage  to  Furope,  he 
was  taken  prisoner  by  the  Turks,  to  whom  he  paid  a  large  ransom  for  his 
freedom.  On  the  10th  of  Sept.,  1684,  he  was  commissioned  Captain  of 
a  Militia  Company  in  New  York.  He  purchased  for  the  Huguenots, 
Sept.  20,  1689,  of  John  Pell  and  Rachel  his  wife,  six  thousand  acres  of 
land  within  the  manor  of  Pelham,  now  the  township  of  New  Rochelle,  in 
Westchester  Co.,  New  York.3 

Fail}'  in  1689  news  reached  New  York  of  the  overthrow  of  James  the 
Second,  and  the  accession  of  William.  Prince  of  Orange,  to  the  English 
throne.  The  people  having  determined  to  seize  Fort  James,  in  the 
interest   of  King  William  and   Queen    Mary,  they  selected    Capt.    Jacob 

'  N.  Y.  Hist.  Society  Coll.,  1868,  p.  424. 

'  Kolton's  Hist,  of  Westchester  County,  vol.  1,  p.  376. 


g  THE   LEISLER  FAMILY. 

Leisler  to  carry  their  design  into  effect.  On  the  3d  of  June,  1689,  the  day 
following  its  seizure,  Lieut.-Governor  Nicholson  left  New  York  for 
England.  The  same  day  Leisler  issued  a  proclamation  declaring  that  his 
intention  in  holding  the  fort  was  to  preserve  the  Protestant  religion,  and 
that  he  should  hold  it  only  until  the  arrival  of  a  Governor  with  orders  from 
his  Royal  Highness,  the  Prince  of  Orange,  then  daily  expected,  into 
whose  hands  it  would  be  immediately  delivered  up.  But  this  expectation, 
unfortunately  for  him,  and  the  peace  of  the  Province,  was  not  realized  un- 
til the  arrival  of  Gov.  Sloughter,  in  March,  1691.  In  the  meantime,  Leisler, 
on  the  1 6th  of  August,  1689,  was  commissioned  Commander-in-Chief,  by 
a  Committee  of  Safety,  who  represented  a  majority  of  the  community. 

In  Dec,  1689,  a  messenger  arrived  in  New  York,  bearing  a  letter  from 
the  English  Government,  addressed  "To  Francis  Nicholson,  Esq.,  or  in 
his  absence,  to  such  as  for  the  time  being  takes  care  for  preserving  the 
peace  and  administering  die  laws  in  His  Majesties  province  of  New  York." 
This  letter  i;ave  authority  to  the  person  addressed  to  take  chief  command 
as  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  Province,  and  to  appoint  a  Council  to  assist 
him  in  conducting  the  government.  By  the  advice  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety  Leisler,  on  the  nth  Dec,  1689,  assumed  the  style  of  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  and  selected  as  his  Council,  Pieter  De  La  Nov,  Samuel  Staats, 
Hendrick  Jansen  (Van  Feurden),  Johannes  Yermelje,  for  the  city  and 
county  of  New  York;  Capt.  Gerardus  Beeckman,  for  Kings  County; 
Samuel  Kdsall,  for  Queens  County  ;  Capt.  Thomas  Williams,  for  West- 
chester County  :  and  William  Lawrence,  for  the  County  of  Orange.  They 
appointed  Jacob  Milborne  Secretary  of  the  Province  and  Clerk  to  the 
Lieutenant-Governor  and  Council.  On  the  28th  Jan.,  1691,  Capt.  Richard 
Ingoldsby  arrived  in  New  York,  bearing  their  Majesties'  Commission  as 
Captain  of  Loot,  and,  without  producing  any  legal  authority,  he  demanded 
of  Leisler  the  possession  of  the  fort,  which  was  refused.  Henry  Sloughter, 
who  had  been  appointed  Governor  in  Chief  of  the  Province,  arrived  on 
the  19th  of  March  following,  late  in  the  day,  and  Leisler,  "having  notice 
thereof,  that  same  night  (though  very  late)  took  care  to  deliver  the  fort  to 
his  onler.  which  was  done  very  early  the  next  morning."  Sloughter  im- 
mediately ordered  the  arrest  of  Leisler,  and  his  friends  with  him,  and 
called  a  special  Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer,  which  was  held  for  their 
dial  in  April  following.  By  this  court,  composed  of  Mime  of  his  most 
virulent  enemies,  and  which  from  the  first  had  prejudged  him  and  his  as- 
sociates,1 Leisler,  and  Jacob  Milborne,  his  son-in-law,  were  convicted 
and  attainted  of  high  (reason,  for  not  delivering  the  possession  of  the  fort 
to  Capt.  Richard  Ingoldsby,  and  sentenced  to  death.  They  were  executed 
together  near  the  site  of  the  present  Hall  of  Records."  on  Saturday,  May  16, 
16,91,  while  the  populace  was  overawed  by  military  force,  and  their 
enemies  "were  carousing  in  beastly  triumph  and  drunkenness." 

Leister's  dying  speech  hears  testimony  of  his  Christian  spirit  and  heroic 
fortitude.  While  not  denying  that  excesses  had  been  committed,  oftentimes 
ust  their  will,  "during  the  unhappy  abode"  of  himself  and  Milborne 
"in  power," — which  required  in  such  great  and  weighty  matters  of  state 
more  wise,  cunning,  and  powerful  pilots  than  either  of  them  could  claim  to 
be, — he  declared  their  common   object  to  have  been  the  glory  of  the  Pro 

1  Gerardus  Beekman,  Johannes  Vermelje,  Thomas  Williams,  Meyndert  Coerten,  Abraham  Brasher,  and 
Aliraham  Gouverneur  were  i  onvii  ted,  »itli  Leisler  ami  Milborne,  of  high  treason. 
"  Moulton's  View  of  the  City  of  New  Orange  in  1072,  p.  22. 


THE   LEISLER  FAMILY.  ~ 

testant  interest  and  the  establishment  of  their  present  Majesties'  govern- 
ment Of  such  as  they  had  injured,  lie  humbly  begged  forgiveness,  desir- 
ing them  "with  Christian  charity  to  bury  all  malice  in  our  graves"; 
declaring  before  God  and  the  world,  "as  dying  sinners,  that  we  not  only 
forgive  the  greatest  and  most  inveterate  of  our  enemies,  but,  according  to 
the  pattern  of  our  dying  Saviour,  we  say  to  the  God  of  justice,  '  Father, 
forgive  them,  for  they  know  not  what  they  do '  "  ;  requiring  and  making  it 
"  our  dying  supplication  to  all  our  relatives  and  friends  that  they  should,  in 
time  to  come,  be  forgetful  of  any  injury  done  to  us  or  either  of  us,"  so  that 
discord  and  dissension  may  by  "  our  dying  sides  be  buried  in  oblivion." 
1  [e  prayed  the  Lord  in  his  infinite  mercy  to  preserve  the  King  and  Queen  ; 
to  be  merciful  unto  and  bless  with  peace  and  unity  their  kingdoms,  and  pre- 
serve the  province  from  enemies  abroad  and  spiteful  wretches  at  home  ;  to 
bless  the  Governor,  the  Council,  Assembly,  and  Government  now  estab- 
lished, that  they  may  be  united  to  propagate  their  Majesties'  interest,  the 
country's  good,  and  the  establishment  of  piety  ;  praying  the  Lord  of  Heaven 
of  his  infinite  mercy  to  bless  all  that  wish  well  to  Zion,  and  convert  those 
that  are  out  of  the  way  ;  to  comfort  all  that  are  desolate,  grieved,  and 
oppressed  in  misery,  especially  the  souls  of  that  poor  family  unto  which  he 
did  formerly  belong;  his  only  comfort  in  this  case  being  that  God  had 
promised  to  take  care  of  the  widow  and  fatherless,  reccommending  them  all 
into  the  hands  of  one  that  is  able  and  willing  to  save  those  that  seek  Him  ; 
desiring  them  to  put  their  perpetual  confidence  in  the  mercies  of  one  that 
never  faileth,  and  not  to  weep  for  him  who  was  departing  to  his  Clod,  but 
rather  weep  for  themselves  who  remain  behind  in  a  state  of  misery  and 
trouble.  He  then  expressed  the  hope  that  all  would  "  Christian-like  be 
charitable  to  our  poor  distressed  family  that  are  to  remain  among  you  (as 
long  as  God  please) ;  that  you  will  join  with  us  in  prayer  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  our  immortal  souls  in  a  kingdom  of  never  Dying  Glory,  unto  which 
God  of  his  inhnte  mercy  bring  us  all.     Amen.     Amen." 

When  the  sheriff  asked  him  if  he  was  ready  to  die,  he  replied,  Yes  ;  that 
he  had  made  his  peace  with  God,  and  death  had  no  terror  for  him.  He 
then  requested  that  his  body  might  be  delivered  to  his  wife  ;  declared  that 
he  had  educated  his  family  as  Christians,  and  hoped  they  would  continue  so 
to  be.  He  said,  "  You  have  brought  my  body  to  shame,  I  hope  you  will 
not  despise  my  family  therefor."  "We  read  in  the  Lord's  prayer,  For- 
give us  our  trespasses  as  we  forgive  them  that  trespass  against  us."  "  Our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  suffered  so  much  in  this  world,  why  should  I  not  suffer  a 
little  ?  "  Turning  to  his  son,  Milborne,  he  said,  "  I  must  now  die  ;  why  must 
you  die?  You  have  been  but  a  servant  to  me."  He  then  again  declared, 
as  a  dying  man,  that  what  he  had  done  was  in  the  service  of  King  William 
and  Queen  Mary,  for  the  defence  of  the  Protestant  religion  and  the  good 
of  the  country,  and  invoked  the  judgment  of  God  upon  his  actions.  As 
the  handkerchief  was  put  about  his  head  he  exclaimed  :  "I  hope  these  my 
eyes  shall  see  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  Heaven.     I  am  ready  ;  I  am  ready." 

/Milborne  prayed  for  the  King  and  Queen,  the  Governor  and  Council, 
pardoned  the  judge  who  had  condemned  him,  saying  that  the  Lord  would 
forgive  him  ;  that  "  he  was  ready  to  lay  down  this  terrestrial  coat,  being 
assured  that  his  Heavenly  Father  would  clothe  him  with  a  new  one  in  the 
Kingdom  of  Heaven."  Then  turning  to  Mr.  Robert  Livingston,  he  said  : 
"  You  have  caused  the  King  [that]  1  must  now  die  ;  but  before  God's  tri- 
bunal I  will  implead  you  for  the  same."     To  Leisler  he  said:   "We  are 

2 


j0  THE  LEISLER  FAMILY. 

thoroughly  wet  with  rain  ;  but  in  a  little  while  we  shall  be  rained  through 
with  the  Holy  Spirit."  To  the  Sheriff,  who  asked  him  if  he  would  not  bless 
the  King  and  Queen,  he  answered  :  "  It  is  for  the  King  and  Queen  I  die, 
and  the  Protestant  religion  to  which  I  was  born  and  bred.  I  am  ready;  I 
am  ready.     Father,  unto  thy  hands  I  recommend  my  soul." 

Dominie  Selyns,  who  once  declared  that  Leisler  was  a  devil  in  the  flesh, 
was  touched  by  their  demeanor  on  the  scaffold,  and  confessed  that  they 
both  died  like  Christians. 

After  execution  (by  hanging)  they  were  beheaded  and  their  bodies  buried 
in  ground  belonging  to  Leisler,  east  of  the  Commons,  and  near  the  corner 
of  a  street  called  George  street,  supposed  to  be  in  the  rear  of  the  present 
"  Tribune  Building,"  between  Spruce  and  Frankfort  streets.  They  were 
reburied,  with  great  solemnity  by  a  large  concourse  of  citizens,  in  the  Old 
Dutch  Church,  in  Garden  street,  now  Exchange  Place,  Oct.  20,  1698. 
The  British  Parliament,  in  1695.  passed  an  act  reversing  their  attainder, 
and  restoring  their  estates  to  their  families,  thus  virtually  censuring  the 
illegality  of  their  execution.  (Dunlap's  History  of  New  York,  Vol.  1; 
Documentary  History  of  New  York,  Vol.  2  ;  The  Administration  of 
Jacob  Leisler,  by  Charles  F.  Hoffman,  in  Sparks'  American  Biography, 
Vol.  13  ;  Collections  of  the  N.  Y.  Historical  Society,  for  1868  ;  Valen- 
tine's History  of  New  York.) 

Flsje  Tymens,  the  widow  of  Jacob  Leisler,  survived  him  some  13  or  14 
years.  She  was  living  Sept.  17,  1704,  at  which  date  she  was  a  sponsor  at 
the  baptism  of  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Barent  Reinders.     Issue. 

2.  i.  Susannah,1  bap.  Feb.  10,  1664;  joined  the  Dutch  Church  in  New 
York,  Dec.  3,  1681,  and  removed  with  certificate  some  time  after  to  Ber- 
gen (N.  J.?).  She  m.  1st,  Michiel  Vaughton  (called  Farton  in  the  Dutch 
Church  Baptismal  Records),  an  Englishman  and  ^.protigi  of  Gov.  Thomas 
Dongan,  with  whom  he  came  to  New  York  in  August,  1683  ;  their  m.  1. 
is  dated  June  24,  1687  (N.  Y.  <;.  &  B.  Record,  Vol.  Y.,  p.  174).  He 
was  a  half-brother  of  John  Spragg,  Esq.,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Legis- 
lative Council  in  1683,  and  subsequently  Secretary  of  the  Province  of 
New  York. 

Governor  Dongan  describes  Vaughton  as  having  been  "  a  volunteer  two 
or  three  years  on  board  ship  with  Captain  Temple,"  etc.,  and  "a  pretty 
ingenious  young  man,"  who,  happening  to  be  in  London  when  he  came  away, 
offered  his  services,  which  the  Governor  accepted  and  promised  to  aid  him 
with  money  when  in  need  of  it  "  for  to  put  him  into  some  way."  On 
the  nth  of  May,  1684,  he  was  commissioned  Clerk  of  the  Market  of  New 
York,  and  in  December  following  we  find  him  Commander  of  the  Sloop 
James,  and  authorized  by  warrant  to  proceed  to  the  Sound  and  seize  and 
send  to  the  city  all  vessels  that  may  seem  to  be  engaged  in  unlawful  traffic. 
Edward  Antill  was  part  owner  of  the  vessel  he  commanded,  Vaughton's 
share  in  it  having  been  purchased  with  money  loaned  him  by  Gov.  Dongan. 
in  the  spring  of  1685,  Hugh  Riddle,  a  Scotchman  and  "poor  Gentleman," 
coining  into  the  Province  from  New  Jersey,  brought  with  him,  without 
entry  at  the  Custom  House,  a  small  parcel  of  linen  cf  the  value  of  three 
to  five  pounds.  Some  time  after,  Riddle  and  one  of  the  Custom  officers 
"  drinking  drunk  together,"  fell  to  quarrelling,  on  which  the  officer  went  out, 
about  one  or  two  in  the  morning,  and,  meeting  Vaughton,  also  a  Custom 
House  officer,  compelled  him  to  go  with  him  to  seize  uncustomed  goods,  at 
Riddle's  lodgings.     Arrived  there,  they  broke  open  the  door,  and  Riddle, 


THE   LEISLBR   FAMILY.  ,  , 

"  still  drunk,"  in  endeavoring  to  keep  them  out,  stabbed  Vaughton,  wound- 
ing him  severely.  For  this  offence  he  was  thrown  into  prison,  where  he 
remained  a  long  time  awaiting  Vaughton's  recovery.  Being  in  a  starving 
condition,  he  was  finally  liberated  upon  the  application  of  Mr.  Vaughton, 

Mr.  Spragg,  and  others,  the  Council  ordering  his  goods  to  be  released  upon 
his  paying  the  physicians  their  charges  for  attending  Vaughton.  These 
being  more  than  the  value  of  the  goods,  and  Riddle  a  poor  man,  Mr.  Spragg, 
in  charity  to  him,  paid  the  surgeons  their  demand,  amounting  to  ten 
pounds.1 

On  the  24th  of  January,  1702,  Susanna  Vaughton,  his  widow,  petitioned 
for  a  patent  of  300  acres  of  land,  lying  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Crom  Klboogh 
(Crum  Elbow  Creek),  in  Dutchess  County,  ''which  she  alleges  to  be  part 
of  a  purchase  made  by  Henry  Pawling  (Sheriff  of  Esopus  in  1684),  under 
a  license  granted  to  her  husband,  in  company  with  said  Pawling,  and  for 
which  no  patent  has  as  yet  been  granted." 

The  last  notice  of  Michiel  Vaughton  where  his  identity  is  certain  is 
found  in  the  record  of  the  baptism  of  his  son  Michiel,  September  9,  1688. 
The  sponsors  at  this  baptism  were  John  Spragg,  Robbert  Walters,  and  Catha- 
rina  Leydser.  He  probably  died  soon  after.  His  widow  m.  2d,  March  12 
1704,  Leonard  (Huygen)  de  Kleyn,*  by  whom  she  had  no  issue. 

Michiel  Vaughton,  son  of  Michiel  Vaughton  and  Susannah  Leisler, 
bap.  September  9,  1688,  m.  May  15,  1712,  Catharina  dau.  of  John  Don- 
aldson (Danginson,  Danillson,  Dennissen,  Dumelson)  and  Elizabeth  Ro- 
denburg.f  In  17 19  he  was  a  merchant  and  afterwards  a  sail-maker  in  New 
York. 

Will   dated    Dec.    28,    1732;    proven    Feb.   24,    1736;     names    wife, 

1  Doc.  Ret.  to  Col.  Hist,  of  N.  Y.,  vol.  3,  p.  407-8-9,  493.  Cal.  N.  Y.  Hist.  Mss.  Engilsh,  p.  116-117,  128, 
134  and  306. 

*  Lkendert  (Leonard)  Huygen  de  Ki.eyn  (de  Cleyn,  Cleyn)  Van  Buuren,  was  a  son  of  Hugh  I'.arentsen 
de  Clein,  who,  with  his  wife  and  seven  children,  embarked  from  Amsterdam  for  \cw  Netherland,  in  May, 
1661,  in  the  Beaver.  Hugo  Barents  (de  Kleyn)  and  his  wife  Mayken  Bartels  joined  the  Dutch  Church  in 
New  Amsterdam,  October  2,  1661.  I.eendert  joined  May  28,  1679,  and  m.  1st,  April  25,  1083.  Magdalena 
Wolsui  Wolsen  >.  widow  of  Cornells  Van  dcr  Veen      He  was  a  shop-keeper  in  New  York  for  many 

years,  hut  removed  in  the  latter  part  of  his  life  to  New  Rochelle,  Westchester  Co.,  X,  Y. ,  where  he  died  in 
1735,  having  survived  his  second  wife.  Susannah  Leisler,  a  number  of  years.  The  Latter  part  of  his  name  is 
frequently  dropped  in  the  Dutch  Records,  and  he  appears  simply  as  Leendert  Huygen  or  Huygcns.     Issue: 

i.   David,  hap.  May  24,  1(84.  d.  s.  p. 

;.  Maria,  bap.  March  7,  1686  ;  m.  February  28.  1708,  Joseph  Robinson,  merchant,  of  New  York,  and  had 
1  rd,  bap.  September  24,  1710  ;  Richard,  bap.  September  17,  1712  ;  Joseph,  Lap.  January  2,  1715;  and 

Maria,  bap.  January  14,  1719. 

3.  Elisabeth,  bap.  March  29,  1688  :  m.  November  3.  1705,  Anthony  I.ispenard,  son  of  Anthony  and  wife 
Aheltie.  At  the  baptism  of  his  children  his  name  is  written  Anthony  Lippenard.  In  1724  he  removed  to 
New  Rochelle.  Issue  :  Anthony,  hap.  July  27,  1709  ;  Magdalena,  bap.  February  16,  1712  ;  Leonard,  bap. 
January  25,  1716  :  Johannes,  bap.  February  1.  1721  ;  and  Elisabeth,  bap.  February  5,  1724. 

4.  Barent,  bap.  February  28,  1690 ;  m.  August  28,  1711.  Cornelia,  dau.  of  Rev.  Rudolphus  Varick  and  his 
wile  Margarets  Visboom,  and  had  Leonard,  bap.  December  7,  1712.  Barent  de  Kleyn  died  soon  after,  and 
his  widow,  Cornelia,  m.  2d,  July  22,  1715,  Pieter  Van  Dyk  (Van  Dyck). 

5.  Johannes,  bap.  February  4,  1694  ;  d.  s.  p. 

6.  Magdalena,  bap.  January  26,  1696  :  d.  s.  p. 

7.  Catharina,  bap.  in  Brooklyn.  November  27.  1698;  d.  s.  p. 

t  Elizabeth  Rodenburg,  dau.  of  Lucas  Rodenburg  and  Catrina  Roelofs,  was  born  on  the  Island  of  Cu- 
racoa.  her  father  being  vice  director  there  from  about  1646  to  1657,  the  year  of  his  death.  Her  mother  was 
a  dau.  of  Roelof  Jansen  and  Anneke  Jans,  and  after  the  death  of  her  first  husband  married  2d.  April  24, 
1658,  Johannes  Pieterszen  Ver  Brugge  [Van  Brugh]  from  Haerlem,  a  prominent  merchant  and  magisirate 
of  New  Amsterdam. 

Elizabeth  Rodenburg  m.  1st,  September  3,  1679,  Ephraim,  son  of  Augustyn  Hermans  and  Janneken  Ver- 
leth.  Hf  was  bap.  September  1,  1652.  In  August,  1673,  when  the  Dutch  fleet  under  command  of  Benckes 
and  F.vertscn  captured  New  York,  he  was  a  C'ierk  in  the  Secretary  of  State's  Office,  and  was  com- 
missioned with  others,  by  the  Dutch  Council  of  war.  to  administer  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  inhabit- 
ants on  Long  Island.  Removing  to  the  Delaware,  he  was  appointed,  in  1676,  Clerk  of  the  courts  of 
New  Castle  and  Upland,  the  court  giving  him  in  1678  a  certificate  for  his  excellent  conduct  while  in  office. 
After  his  marriage  m  New  York  he  returned  to  Delaware,  and  was  appointed  Surveyor  1  to  which  profession 
his  lather  belonged)  June  22,  1680,  for  the  counties  of  New  Castle  and  St.  Jones.  About  this  time  he  joined 
the  Labadists.  a  short-lived  religious  sect,  of  which  Jean  de  I.abadie  was  the  founder,  and  whose  followers 
Dankets  and  Sluyter  had  with  slight  success  sought  to  colonize  on  the  Delaware.  (Hazard's  Annals  of 
Penn.,  426-51-72.  Memoirs  L.  I.  Hist.  Soc,  Vol.  I,  swi..  xxxiv.,  xxw.i  He  died  in  1689.  His  widow  re- 
turned from  Newcastle  and  rejoined  the  Dutch  Church  in  New  York,  September  1,  1689.    They  had  issue 


j  2  THE  LE1SLER  FAMILY. 

Catharin;  eldest  son,  John;  son,  Jacob;  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Susannah, 
Katherin,  and  Mary.  Appoints  his  wife  and  his  cousins  Paul  Richard,  and 
William  Hamersly,  of  the  city  of  New  York,  merchants,  Executrix  and 
Executors.     Issue  : 

i.  Michiel  Vaughton,  bap.  Feb.  15,  1713  ;  d.  young. 

2.  Elizabeth  Vaughton,  bap.  Sept.  1,  1 715. 

3.  Johannes  Vaughton,  bap.  July  31,  171 7  ;  d.  young. 

4.  Johannes  Vaughton,  bap.  April  24,  1720. 

5.  Jacob  Vaughton,  bap.  April  ix,  1722. 

6.  Susannah  Vaughton,  bap.   Dec.  2,  1724;   m.    March  8,    1747, 

Maurits,  son  of  Balthazer  De  Hart  and  Margrietje  Maui  its,  of 
New  York.     They  settled  at  Shrewsbury,  N.  J. 

7.  Catharina  Vauchton,  bap.  Dec.  21,  1726. 

8.  Mary  Vaughton,  bap.   Sept.  25,  1728;  she  m.  June  22,  1769, 

Pieter  Wessels,  and  died  at  Shrewsbury,  Jan.  18,  1816. 

3.  ii.  Catharina,2  bap.  Nov.  8,  1665  ;  m.  Feb.  4,  1685,  Robert  Wal- 
ters, j.  m.,  from  Plymouth,  England.  He  was  a  merchant  in  New  York, 
Alderman  of  the  South  Ward,  1688-9,  member  of  the  Assembly  called 
under  Leisler's  authority  in  1690,  and  member  of  the  Colonial  Council 
under  Governors  Bellomont  and  Nanfan,  from  1698  to  1702,  when  he  was 
suspended  by  Lord  Cornbury.  He  was  again  a  member  of  the  Council 
under  the  administrations  of  Governors  Hunter  and  Burnet,  and  Mayor  of 
New  York  1720-21-22-23.     He  died  early  in  1 731.     Issue  : 

1.  Elisabeth    Walters,  bap.    Nov.    1,    1685  ;    m.    Capt.    Johannes 

Wendel,  of  Albany.   See  Pearson's  First  Settlers  of  Albany,  p.  148. 

2.  Johannes  Walters,  bap.  May  22, 1687. 

3.  Maria  Walters,  bap.  Nov.  24,  1689. 

4.  Catharina   Walters,    bap.  ,   1692?;    m.    Nov.    15,    1710, 

Johannes  Van  Hartsberge,  and  had  Elizabeth,  bap.  Aug.  5,  1  7  1  1  ; 
Johannes,  bap.  March  29,  17 13;  and  Catharina,  bap.  Dec.  19, 
1  714.     In  1 71 9  he  was  a  merchant  at  Surinam. 

5.  Sara  Walters,  bap.  in  Brooklyn,  May  4,  1695  ;  d.  young. 

6.  Jacoba  Walters,  bap. ,  1697.? 

7.  Jacob  Walters,  bap.  March  20,  1700. 

8.  Sara  Walters,  born  June  29,  9  o'clock  in  the  evening;  bap.  July 

2,  1704. 

9.  Hester  Walters,  bap.  Jan.  8,  1707 

4.  iii.  Jacob,5  bap.  Nov.  13,  1667.  He  was  active  in  procuring  from 
Parliament  the  reversal  of  the  attainder  of  his  father  and  brother-in-hnv 
Jacob  Milborne,  and  for  this  purpose  visited  England  in  1694-5.  After  his 
return  he  resided  in  the  South  Ward  of  New  York,  where  he  was  living 
in  Nov.,  1  73 r.      He  died  without  issue. 

5.  iv.  Mary,2  bap.  Dec.  12,  1669;  joined  the  Dutch  Church  in  New 
York,  Sept.  2,  16S8,  and  afterwards  removed  to  Bergen.  In  Feb.,  1690 
(m.  1.  dated  Feb.  3  of  that  year),  she  married  Jacob  Milborne  (Milburne, 
Melborn),  the  active   Secretary   of   her   father,   and    one    of   the    leading 

bap.  in  New  York  :  Augustinus,  l>ap.  July  7,  1680  ;  Augustina,  bap.  June  I,  1684  ;  Samuel,  bap.  April  20,  1687, 
anil  Kphriam,  bap.  October  7.  1688. 

Shi  in  id,  March  24,  1692,  John  Donaldson,  j.  m.  Van  Galleway  (Scotland?).  He  lived  on  the  South 
or  Delaware  River  where  Catharina,  their  dan.,  named  in  the  text  ■■•■  l>  m       I  hi  \    had  another 

dau.  Maria,  bap.  in  New  York,  July  1,  1696,  who  married  George  Yates,  merchant,  of  Philadelphia. 


THE  LEISLER  FAMIL  Y.  j  ., 

spirits  of  his  administration.     He  was  born  in  England  about  1648,  and 
was  a  brother  of  Rev.  William  Milborne,  who  settled   as  minister  of  the 

church  at  Saco,  Maine,  in  May,  1685,  and  prob.  died  at   Boston,  August, 
1699.' 

It  is  alleged  that  he  was  convicted  of  clipping  the  Kings  coin,  and  sold 
as  a  servant  in  the  Barbadoes,  and  afterwards  bought  by  a  Hartford  man.3 
If  this  story  be  true,  he  must  have  been  a  mere  child  at  the  time  of  the  com- 
mission of  the  offence  for  which  he  was  transported  to  Barbadoes.  He  was 
living  in  Hartford  in  1663,3  came  to  New  York  in  1668,  being  then  twenty 
years  old,  and  was  employed  by  Thomas  Delavall,  a  leading  merchant, 
as  clerk  and  bookkeeper,  in  whose  service  he  remained  until  1672.  In 
October  of  that  year  he  was  admitted  to  plead  with  John  Sharp  and  Samuel 
Edsal,  Attorneys  for  the  Plaintiff,  in  the  trial  of  a  suit  in  the  Court  of 
Assizes,  at  New  York,  on  appeal  from  the  Court  on  the  Delaware,  brought 
by  Armigart  Pappegoya  (dau.  of  the  Swedish  Governor  Print/.)  against 
Andrew  Carr,  for  the  recovery  of  Tinnicum  Island.4  He  soon  after  eng 
in  trade  as  a  merchant  in  New  York,  his  commercial  enterprises  causing 
his  frecpient  absence  from  the  province.  Returning  from  England  on  the 
25th  of  August,  1689,  he  was  appointed  in  December  following  Secretary 
of  the  Province  and  Clerk  to  Lieut.-Gov.  Leisler,  with  whom  his  subsequent 
history  and  sad  fate  is  identified. 

It  is  probable  that  Mary  Leisler2  was  the  second  wife  of  Jacob  Mil- 
borne.  In  the  list  of  members  of  the  Dutch  Church  in  New  York,  under 
date  Nov.  29,  1688,  appears  the  name  of  Johanna  Edsal,  h.  v.5  Jacob 
Melborn.  Opposite  her  name,  Obyt  is  written,  but  the  date  of  her  decease 
is  not  given.  She  was  probably  the  dau.  of  Samuel  Edsal  and  Jenneke 
Wessels,  and  bap.  in  Bergen,  N.  J.,  Sept.  4,  1667. 

In  the  second  preamble  of  the  Act  of  Parliament  in  1695,  reversing  the 
attainder  of  Jacob  Leisler  and  others,  the  following  is  recited:  "And 
whereas  the  said  Jacob  Leisler,  also  Jacob  Milborne,  Abraham  Gouverneur, 
and  several  others,  were  arraigned  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  Judicature  at 
New  York  aforesaid,  and  convicted  and  attainted  of  high  treason  and 
felony,  for  not  delivering  the  possession  of  the  said  fort  to  the  said  Richard 
Ingoldsby,  and  the  said  Jacob  Leisler  and  Jacob  Milborne  were  executed 
for  the  same.  May  it  therefore  please  your  most  excellent  Majesty  at  the 
humble  petition  and  request  of  Jacob  Leisler,  the  son  and  heir  of  the  said 
Jacob  Leisler,  deceased,  Jacob  Milborne,  the  son  and  heir  of  the  said 
Jacob  Milborne,  deceased,  and  of  the  said  Abraham  Gouverneur,  that  it  be 
declared  and  enacted,"  etc." 

The  above  is  the  only  statement  we  have  found,  that  Jacob  Milborne 
left  issue  surviving  him.  This  son  (if  the  name  is  not  an  accidental  in- 
terpolation in  the  above  bill)  was  probably  the  fruit  of  Milborne's  first  mar- 
riage with  Johanna  Edsal,  who,  being  in  England  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
tragic  death,  afterwards  remained  there. 

Mary  Leisler,2  widow  of  Jacob  Milborne,  m.  2d,  in  May,  1699,  Abra- 
ham Gouverneur,  above  referred  to,  son  of  Nicholas  Gouverneur  and 
Machtelt  (Matilda)  de  Riemer.  In  1689,  then  a  youth  of  eighteen,  he  was 
made   Clerk  of  Leisler's   Committee  of  Safety  and  Town  Clerk  of  New 

1  Savage's  Genealogical  Dictionary,  3,  p.  206.    Folsom's  Hist.  Saco  and  Biddeford,  p.  137. 

3  Brodhead's  Hist,  of  New  York,  2,  p.  196.     Doc.  Rel.  to  Col.  Hist.  N.  V.,  3,  755. 

3  Hinman's  First  Puritan  Settlers  of  Conn.  p.  54. 

*  Hazard's  Annals  of  f'enn.,  p.  400. 

6  Abbreviation  of  Huysvrow,  the  Dutch  word  for  wife  or  housewife. 

"  Documentary  History  of  New  York,  vol.  2,  p.  249.        X 3  $ 


I4  THE  LEISLER  FAMILY. 

York.  He  was  elected  to  the  Assembly  in  1699,  served  until  1702  ;  was 
Speaker  in  1701,  "  and  regarded  as  among  the  ablest  and  best  of  the  Leis- 
lerian  party."  His  will  is  dated  Sept.  12,  1739;  proven  Oct.  8,  1740. 
Issue  : 

1.  Nicholas  Gouverneur,  bap.  Feb.  25,  1700;  he  married  his  cou- 

sin Geertruy t,  dau.  of  Barent  Rynders  and  Hester  Leisler.  Their 
children  are  given  below. 

2.  Jacoba  Gouverneur,  bap.  Dec.  5,  1701. 

3.  Elizabeth  Gouverneur,  bap.  July  9,  1704  ;  died  1751,  unmarried. 

4.  Jacob  Gouverneur,  bap.  May  7,  1710;  died  young. 

5.  Maria  Gouverneur,  bap.  July  13,  1712  ;  m.  ist,  Sept.  23,  1735, 

Henry  Myer,  Jr.,  son  of  Hendrick  Myer  and  Wyntje  Rhee,  and 
had  Henricus,  bap.  Aug.  4,  1736.  She  m.  2d,  Dec.  31,  1742, 
Jasper  Farmer,  Merchant  of  New  York. 

6.  v.  Johannes,2  bap.  Dec.  20,  16  71  ;  d.  young. 

7.  vi.  Hester,2  bap.  Oct.  8,  1673  ;  m.  Barent  Rynders  (Reinders, 
Rynderts),  of  the  city  of  New  York,  merchant,  m.  1.  dated  March  10,  1696. 
He  was  probably  a  son  of  Barent  Reyndertse,  smith,  who  was  living  at 
Albany  as  early  as  1657,  and  died  there  in  1682. 1  His  will  is  dated  Feb. 
5,  1725;  proven  Jan.  25,  1726-7.  His  widow,  Hester,  made  will  dated 
July  11,  1757;  proven  April  29,  1763.     Issue: 

1.  Geertruyt  Rynders,  bap.  Aug.  16,  1702;  m.   ist,  about  1728, 

Nicholas  Gouverneur,  and  2d  David,  son  of  William  Provoost. 
By  her  first  husband,  Nicholas  Gouverneur,  she  had  Hester,  bap. 
Sept.  7,  1729;  died  young;  Abraham,  bap.  Nov.  22,  1730; 
Hester,  bap.  March  5,  1732;  Barend,  bap.  Feb.  6,  1734;  died 
young  ;  Nicholaus,  bap.  June  15,  1735  ;  died  young  ;  Barent,  bap. 
May  29,  1737;  and  Nicholaus,  bap.  April  18,  1739.  By  her 
second  husband,  David  Provoost,  she  had  one  son,  David  Rynders 
Provoost,  bap.  at  Hackensack,  N.  J.,  July  21,  1745,  and  per- 
haps others. 

2.  Elizabeth  Rynders,  bap.  Sept.  1 7, 1 704  ;  m.  July  3,  1 729,  Nicholas 

Bayard,  son  of  Samuel  Bayard  and  Margreta  Van  Cortlant,  and 
had  Hester,  bap.  July  29,  1730;  Samuel,  bap.  March  22,  1732  ; 
Samuel,  bap.  June  13,  1733;  Margareta,  bap.  Feb.  2,  1735; 
Nicholas,  bap.  Nov.  14,  1736;  Margareta,  bap.  Aug.  27,  1738; 
Judith,  bap.  Feb.  29,  1740;  Barent  Rynders,  bap.  March  31, 
1742;  and  Elisabeth,  bap.  Oct.  15,  1746. 

3.  Johanna  Rvndkrs,  bap.  July  21,  1706;  in.  Dec.  12,  1723,  David, 

son  of  David  Provoost  and  Helena  Byvanck.  See  vol.  vi.  p.  16, 
of  the  N.  Y.  G.  and  B.  Record.  To  the  account  of  their  family, 
there  given,  add  that  their  dau.  Helena,  bap.  May  24,  1728, 
m.  Ist,  Fresneau  ;  111.  2d,  June  19,  1760,  Jacob  Brewerton. 

4.  Ester  Rynders,  bap.  Oct.  31,  1708;  d.  unmarried. 

5.  Barent  Rvndkrs,  bap.  Nov.   19,   1710;    m.  Feb.  3,   1740,  Maria 

Cuyler.  He  died  before  July,  1757,  leaving  wife  and  dau.  Hester 
surviving  him. 

6.  Jacob  Rvndkrs,  bap.  Oct.  26,  171 2  ;  d.  s.  p. 

7.  Alida  Rvndkrs,  bap.  Oct.  31,  1716;   m.   March  10,  1743,  Henry 

1  Pearson's  First  Settlers  of  Albany,  p.  91. 


THE  LEISLER  FAMILY.  j, 

Cuyler,  Jr.,  of  the  city  of  New  York,  merchant,  son  of  Henry 
Cuyler  and  Maria  Jacobs;  he  was  bap.  Sept.  25,  1 7 1 5 .  They 
had  issue  :  Barent  Rynders,  bap.  March  20, 1745;  Hester,  bap. 
Jan.  4,  1747;  Maria,  bap.  June  15,  1748;  and  Alida,  bap.  Nov. 
12,  1749. 
8.  Johannes  Rynders,  bap.  Jan.  14,  1719;  d.  s.  p. 

8.  vii.  Francina,"  bap.  Dec.  16,  1676;  m.  ist,  Thomas  Lewis;  m.  1. 
dated  Nov.  26,  1694.  Will  of  Thomas  Lewis,  merchant,  of  New  York, 
"at  this  present  time  in  good  health  but  now  bound  out  on  a  voyage,"  is 
dated  Jan.  10,  1699-1700;  proven  June  14,  1704;  names:  wife,  Frances; 
son,  Thomas  ;  ''and  the  child  with  which  his  wife  is  big  withall."  Appoints 
his  wife  and  brothers,  Leendart  Lewis,  and  Barent  Rynders,  Executrix  and 
Executors.     Issue: 

1.  Thomas  Lewis,  bap. ,  1695.? 

2.  Jakoba  Lewis,  bap.  in  Brooklyn,  Sept.  12,  1697;  she  m.  ist,  May 

17,  1724,  Jesse,  son  of  Lucas  Kierstede  and  Rachel  Kip  ;  he  was 
a  sea  captain  and  prob.  d.  s.  p.  ;  his  widow  m.  2d,  April  21, 
1734,  Bartholomeus  Schatts,  by  whom  had  issue:  Reinier,  bap. 
April  2,  1735;  and  Francina,  bap.  Sep.  12,  1739. 

3.  Francina  Lewis,  bap.  in  New   York,  April  9,   1699. 
Francina  Leisler,2  widow  of  Thomas  Lewis,  m.  2d,  Jochem  Staats 

(prob.  the  widower  of  Antje  Barentse  Reyndertse,  who  died  in 
17071),  by  whom  she  had  Elizabeth,  bap.  June  12,  1712,  at 
which  date  Jochem  Staats  had  deceased. 

9.  viii.  Margaret.1  It  is  probably  an  error  to  place  her  name  here  as 
the  eighth  child  of  Jacob  Leisler.  She  is  mentioned  in  the  petition  of  her 
mother,  brother,  and  sisters  to  the  Queen  (1694?),  praying  for  the  reversal 
of  the  Attainders  pronounced  against  her  father  and  Jacob  Milborne.2  No 
other  notice  is  found  of  her,  and  it  is  probable  that  she  was  the  step-da tighter 
of  Jacob  Leisler,  Margaret  Van  der  Veen,  who  married  Isaac  Stephenszen. 
See  page  7. 


LOOCKERMANS. 

Among  the  early  settlers  of  New  Netherland  were  five*  persons  bearing 
this  name — Govert,  Jacob  and  Pieter  Janse  Loockermans,  and  their  sis- 
ter Anneken,  and  a  Balthus  Loockermans.  The  modern  form  of  the  name 
is  Lockerman,  but  in  the  early  records  of  the  family  it  is  spelt  Loocker- 
mans. 

Balthus  or  Balthazer  Loockermans  was  perhaps  a  cousin  of  the 
others,  the  exact  relationship  being  difficult  to  determine,  from  the  meagre 
records  that  have  come  down  to  us  concerning  him.  He  and  his  wife 
Engeltje  Hendricks,  had  two  children  baptized  in  the  Dutch  Church  in 
New  Amsterdam,  viz.,  Jacob,  May  28,  1662,  and  Jannetie,  Oct.  14,  1663. 

Pieter  Janse  Loockermans  was  in  New  Amsterdam  in  January,  1642, 

1  Pearson's  First  Settlers  of  Albany,  p.  105. 

3  Coll.  N.  V.  Hist.  Society  for  1868,  p.  335. 

*  Anthony  Loockermans  with  his  partners  Messrs.  (Paulus  Leendertsen]  Van  dcr  Grist,  fComelis)  Schutt 
and  (Cornells]  Stecnwyck,  on  the  26th  Nov.,  1654.  made  an  agreement  with  the  Director  (Stuyvesant)  and 
Council,  for  the  charter  of  the  ship  Golden  Shark,  for  a  voyage  to  the  West  Indies.  Of  him  we  have  no 
other  notice,  and  suppose  that  Govert  Lookennans  is  the  person  alluded  to.  (Cal.  N.  Y.  Hist.  SlbS.  Dutch, 
P    U3-) 


j6  the  leisler  family. 

and  we  find  traces  of  him  here  as  late  as  Oct.  1648.  In  1656  he  was  a 
citizen  of  Beverwyck  (Albany,)  and  purchased  there,  Nov.  16,  of  that  year, 
a  house  lot  of  Hendrik  Gerritse  (Van  Wie  or  Verwey).  In  April,  1658, 
he  was  a  boatswain  in  the  West  India  Company's  service.  He  probably 
had  the  following  children  : 

i.  Pieter  Loockermans,  who  probably  had  two  daughters, 

viz.  :  Marritje,  married  at  Albany,  Dec.  5,  1694,  to  Jo- 
hannes Fonda,  and  Lammertje,  married  at  the  same 
place,  Nov.  3,  1700,  to  Ariaen  Oothout. 

ii.  Maria  Loockermans,  who  married,  1st,  Pieter  Van  Alen, 
of  Kinderhook,  widower  of  Maria  Teller,  and,  2d,  in 
1677,  Gerrit  Van  Nes,  of  Greenbush. 

iii.  Hilletje  Loockermans,  who  married,  prior  to  1682,  Cor- 
nelis  Stephense  Muller,  of  Greenbush,  1663;  of  Clave- 
rack,  1720. 

iv.  Caatje  Loockermans,  who  married,  prior  to  1683,  Jan 
Salomonse  Goewey,  of  Albany. 

v.  Anna  Loockermans,  who  married,  1st,  prior  to  1684, 
Adam  Winne,  of  Albany,  and,  2d,  Oct.  18,  1691,  Jacob 
Teunise  Van  Woert,  widower  of  Catryn  Claas,  of  the 
same  place.* 

Jacob  Janse  Loockermans  also  settled  in  Beverwyck,  as  early  as  1657. 
On  the  28th  of  July,  in  that  year,  the  Sheriff  brought  a  suit  against  him  for 
having  assaulted  Meuwes  Hogenboom,  and  split  his  face  open  from  his 
forehead  to  his  under  lip  with  his  knife  ;  he  was  find  300  guilders  ($120), 
and  ordered  to  pay  for  loss  of  time,  board,  and  surgical  attendance.  In 
May,  1664,  he  and  John  Davits  were  Commissioners  to  negotiate  a  treaty 
of  peace  between  the  Mohawks  and  the  Northern  Indians,  or  Abenaquis, 
which  they  successfully  concluded  at  Narrington,  on  the  24th  of  that  month. 
In  April,  1667,  he  purchased  a  house  and  lot  in  Albany,  of  Willem  Jansen 
Schudt,  and  another  July  25,  1684,  of  Laurence  Van. Alen.  On  the  24th 
of  August,  1685,  he  obtained  a  license  to  travel,  trade,  and  hunt  among 
the  Indians,  as  far  as  the  Wagganasse  and  Attawaasse  (Ottawas),  with  a 
company  of  thirty  men.  He  was  probably  the  Captain  Loquerman,  who, 
with  Arian  Abrahanise  Schuyler  and  Jean  Blaquerd,  were  detained  as  hos- 
tages in  Canada  by  Gov.  Denonville,  while  awaiting  a  reply  to  his  letter  to 
Gov.  Dongan,  dated  Oct.  2,  1687,  in  which  he  complained  of  the  infraction 
of  the  late  treaty  of  peace  by  the  English.  He  was  living  Aug.  18,  1700, 
at  which  date  he  was  a  sponsor  at  the  baptism,  in  Albany,  of  his  grandson 
Jacob,  the  son  of  Wessels  Ten  Brocck  and  Caatje  Loockermans,  who  were 
married  in  Albany,  April  2,  1684.! 

Anneken  [Ann]  Loockermans,  j.  d.  Van  Turnhout,  married  Feb.  26, 
1642,  Oi.okt  Stephenszen  [Van  Cortlandt]  j.  m.  Van  W'yck  in  Duurs- 
tede.  She  probably  came  out  with  her  brother  Govert,  on  his  return  to 
New  Netherland  in  Nov.,  1641,  her  name  first  appearing  in  the  records  as 
one  of  the  witnesses  at  the  baptism,  Dec.  1,  1641,  of  his  eldest  dau.  Mar- 
ritje. In  the  Members  Book  of  the  Dutch  Church  in  New  York,  her  hus- 
band's name  is  recorded  Adolph    Stephenszen  Van   Courtl1,   and  at  the 

*  Pearson's  First  Settlers  of  Albany,  pp.  49,  54,  75,  85,  112,  128,  152,  and  Pearson's  Early  Records  of 
Albany,  p.  8.     Cat.  N.  V.  Hist.  MsS.  Dutch,  p.  195. 

t  Cal.  N.  Y.  Hist.  MSS.  Dutch,  p.  307-316.  English,  p.  139.  Pearson's  First  Settlers  of  Albany,  pp. 
73,  109,  and  Doc    Rel.  to  Col.  Mist,  of  N.  V.,  vol.  3,  p.  513.     Broadhead's  Hist,  of  N.  V.  vol.  1,  p.  733. 


THE  LEISLER   FAMILY. 


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baptism  of  their  children,  Olof  Stephenszen  Van  Courtlanl  and  Van  Court- 
landt  The  name  is  now  spelled,  we  believe,  by  the  family,  \ran  Cort- 
landt. 

Olof  Stephenszen  Van  Cortlandt  came  to  New  Amsterdam  in  the  ship  1  Car- 
ing in  1637,  a  soldier  in  the  West  India  Company's  Service.  He  was  pro- 
moted by  Gov.  Kieft,  and  in  July,  1659,  appointed  Commissary  of  Car- 
goes, at  a  salary  of  thirty  guilders  ($12)  per  month.  Jn  1645  was  elected 
one  of  the  Board  of  Bight  men  to  adopt  measures  against  the  Indians,  and 
in  1649,  one  of  the  Board  of  Nine  men,  of  which  body  the  following  year 
he  was  President.  He  was  elected  Schepen  of  the  City  in  1654,  and  in 
1655  was  advanced  to  the  higher  position  of  Burgomaster,  an  office  he  held 
during  the  years  1656-58-59,  1662-63  and  1665.  He  was  Alderman  in 
1666-67,  71,  and  succeeded  Mr.  Isaac  Bedlow,  upon  the  death  of  that 
gentleman,  in  the  same  office  in  1673.  His  place  of  residence  was  in 
the  lirouwer  Straat,  now  Stone  Street,  where  he  was  also  engaged  in  busi- 
ness as  a  Brewer,  in  which  occupation  he  became  wealthy.  "  He  had  the 
character    of    being   a   worthy    citizen    and    a   man  most    liberal  in    his 

chanties."*     He  died  April  4,  1684,  having  :niwivud  his  wife  about  -a- year.    ciZuL  ~?VLcl*i/  /V-. /<? '^4 
Issue  :\ 

1.  Stephanus  Van  Cortlandt,  born  May  7,  1643  ;  bap.  May  10, 
1643  ;  m.  Sept.  10,  1671,  Geertruyd  Schuyler,  j.  d.  Van  Albania,  dau.  of 
Philip  Pieterse  Schuyler  and  Margareta  Van  Slechtenhorst. 

2.  Marritie  [Mary]  Van  Cortlandt,  born  July  30,  1654;  the  records 
of  the  Dutch  Church  in  N.  V.  gives  the  date  of  her  baptism  July  23,  1645  ; 
m.  April  27,  1662,  Jeremias  Van  Rensselaer,  j.  m.  Van  Amsterdam, 
second  son  of  Kilian  Van  Rensselaer,  the  first  ancestor  of  the  family  in 
America. 

3.  Johannes  [John]  Van  Cortlandt,  born  Oct.  n,  1648;  bap.  Oct. 
25,  1648  ;  died  unmarried. 

4.  Fytie  [Sophia]  Van  Cortlandt,  born  May  31,  1651  ;  bap.  June  4, 
1651  ;  m.  May  6,  1671,  Andries  Teller,  j.  m.  Van  N.  Albania,  son  of 
Willem  Teller  and  Margariet  Dunces    (Donchesen). 

5.  Catharina  Van  Cortlandt,  born  Oct.  25,  1652 ;  bap.  Jan.  5, 
1653  ;  m.  1st  Nov.  3,  1675,  Johannes  Dervall,  j.  m.  Van  Amsterdam  ; 
he  died  Feb.  18,  1689,  and  his  widow  m.  2d  Nov.  30,  1692,  De  Hr.  Fred- 
erick. Philipszen  (Phillipse),  wedr.  of  Margariet  Hardens  (Hardenbroeck), 
the  first  Lord  of  the  manor  of  Philipsburg. 

6.  Cornelia  Van  Cortlandt,  born  Nov.  21,  1655  ;  bap.  Nov.  28, 
1655  ;  m.  July  12,  1682,  Brandt  Schuyler,  j.  m.  Van  N.  Albania,  son  of 
Philip  Pieterse  Schuyler  and  Margareta  Van  Slechtenhurst.  He  was  born 
Dec.  18,  1659.  (Prof.  Pearson,  to  whom  we  are  indebted  for  the  date  of 
Brandt  Schuyler's  birth,  says,  in  his  "  First  Settlers  of  Albany,"  page  98,  that 
he  married  2d,  April  16,  1741,  Margareta  Van  Wyck.  It  was  his  grand- 
son, Brandt,  the  son  of  Philip  Brandtse  Schuyler  and  Anna  Elizabeth 
Staats,  who  married  Margareta  Van  Wyck,  and  died  Aug.  15,  1752.  Their 
children  were  baptized  in  the  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.) 

7.  Jacobus  [James]  Van  Cortlandt,  born  July  7,  1658;  his  baptism 
is  recorded  the  same  day;  m.  May  7,  1691,  Eva  Phillipse,  dau.  of  Freder- 
ick Phillipse  and  Margariet  Hardenbroeck. 

*  Doc.  Rcl.  to  Co!.  Hist,  of  N.  Y.,  vol.  i,  p.  249.  431.     O'Callaghan's  Hist,  of  New  Nctherland,  vol  i,  p. 
an-13.     Register  of  New  Netherland.     Valentine's  Manual  for  1849,  p.  133-4-5. 
1  Si     N.  Y.  G.  and  1'..  Record,  vol.  v.,  p.  71. 


jg  THE  LEISLER  FAMILY. 

i.  Govert  Loockermans,1  the  most  noted  of  his  family,  was  born  at 
Turnhout,  a  town  in  the  Netherlands,  and  came  to  New  Amsterdam  in 
April,  1633.  It  appears  he  left  Holland  with  Director  General  AVouter 
Van  Twiller  in  the  ship  Soutberg,  which  captured  on  her  voyage  a  Spanish 
caravel,  the  St.  Martin,  to  which  vessel  he  was  transferred,  and  which  was 
brought  safely  into  port.  With  him  came  Jacob  Wolfertsen  (Van  Cou- 
wenhoven),  whose  first  wife,  Hester  Jans,  was  a  sister  of  Loockerman's 
first  wife.  Upon  his  arrival  he  was  taken  into  the  service  of  the  West 
India  Company,  as  clerk,  but  he  soon  left  this  employment  and  engaged 
in  business  on  his  own  account. 

In  1640  he  went  back  to  Holland,  where  he  married  1st,  in  Amsterdam, 
Feb.  26,  1 641,  Ariaentje  Jans,  with  whom  he  returned  to  New  Amsterdam  in 
the  ship  King  David,  Job  Arentsen,  Master,  arriving  here  Nov.  29,  1641. 

On  the  20th  Jan.,  1642,  he  purchased  of  Isaac  Allerton  the  yacht  Hope, 
in  which  he  was  engaged  in  trade  between  New  Amsterdam  and  Fort 
Orange  (Albany),  and  intervening  points  along  the  river,  also  to  the  South 
or  Delaware  River,  and  up  the  Sound  to  the  mouth  of  the  Connecticut.  In 
July,  1644,  while  his  vessel  was  passing  Beeren  Island,  on  the  Upper  Hud- 
son, lie  was  hailed  by  Nicholas  Coom,  Commander  at  Rensselaer's  Stein, 
and  ordered  to  lower  his  colors.  On  being  asked  for  whom,  Coorn  re- 
plied, "  for  the  Staple  right  of  Rensselaerswyck."  But  Loockermans  re- 
fused with  an  oath  to  strike  his  flag  "  for  any  individual  save  the  Prince  of 
Orange  and  the  Lords,  his  masters,"  whereupon  Coorn  fired  several  shots 
at  his  vessel,  one  of  which  "  went  through  the  sail,  and  broke  the  ropes  and 
the  ladder,"  and  another  "  perforated  the  princely  colors,  about  a  foot  above 
the  head  of  Loockermans,  who  kept  the  colors  constantly  in  his  hands." 

On  the  night  of  the  27th  of  Feb.,  1643.  Maryn  Adriaensen  and  Govert 
Loockermans,  by  order  of  Gov.  (Cleft,  led  the  attack  of  a  company  of  citi- 
zens upon  a  party  of  Indians  who  had  encamped  with  their  women  and 
children,  at  Corlears  Hook.  Thirty  of  the  savages  were  killed  while  asleep 
and  unsuspicious  of  dinger  from  those  they  had  deemed  their  friends.  It 
is  said  that  the  recollection  of  this  terrible  and  needless  massacre,  though 
approved  by  the  general  sentiment  of  that  time,  gave  him  much  disquietude 
during  the  later  years  of  his  life. 

His  trading  and  shipping  operations  kept  pace  with  the  growth  of  New 
Amsterdam  and  the  river  towns,  and  before  1649  he  had  two  or  three 
times  visited  Holland,  and  established  an  extensive  commercial  corre- 
spondence with  that  country.  He  also  carried  on  a  large  brewing  busi- 
ness in  Pearl  Street,  near  the  present  Hanover  Square,  where  he  resided. 
In  Sept.,  165 1,  he  was  sentenced  to  be  banished  for  three  years  on  a  charge 
of  violating  the  revenue  laws,  but  this  sentence  was  not  enforced,  and  he 
afterwards  held  some  of  the  highest  positions  of  honor  in  the  Colony.  He 
was  one  of  the  Board  of  Nine  Men  in  1647-9  and  ^50,  Schepen  in  1657 
and  1660,  appointed  one  of  the  Orphan  .Masters  Sept.  10,  1663,  in  place 
of  Johannes  Van  Brugh,  Indian  Interpeter  in  1658,  and  Commissioner 
in  1663  with  Martin  Cregier  to  extinguish  the  Indian  title  to  the  lands 
from  Barnegat  to  the  Raritan.  To  the  honor  of  the  Dutch  Settlers,  be  it 
said,  that  they  always  pursued  an  honest  course  with  the  Indians  in  obtain- 
ing their  lands  by  fair  purchase.  He  was  also  a  Commissioner,  in 
May,  1653,  with  Johannes  De  La  Montague  and  David  Provoost,  ap- 
pointed to  attend  the  investigation  of  an  alleged  conspiracy  of  the  Dutch 
and  Indians  against  the  English. 


THE  LEISLER   FAMILY.  Ig 

In  1666  he  became  a  resident  of  Long  Island  in  the  vicinity  of  New 
Utrecht,  his  wife  (by  his  second  marriage)  remaining  in  New  Vbrk,  where 
it  appears  she  was  engaged  in  shop  keeping,  an  occupation  not  uncommon 
for  the  thrifty  Dutch  women  of  that  period.  There  is  no  doubt  that  lie 
married  his  2d  wife  Marritje  Jans  in  the  Dutch  Church  at  New  Amsterdam, 
July  11,  1649. 

On  the  13th  of  July,  1670,  he  was  commissioned  Lieutenant  of  a  com- 
pany of  foot  in  New  York,  and  probably  died  late  in  the  autumn  of  that 
year.* 

He  possessed  a  superior  education,  for  the  times  in  which  he  lived.  Bold, 
adventurous,  enterprising,  not  much  troubled  with  scruples,  either  in  his 
trading  intercourse  with  the  Indians,  or  the  more  extensive  traffic  in  which 
he  afterwards  engaged  to  the  Netherlands,  he  amassed  a  large  fortune, 
and  was  at  his  death  probably  the  wealthiest  citizen  in  New  York.  Dying 
intestate,  it  became  a  fruitful  source  of  contention  between  his  heirs  for  many 
years  after.  Like  his  friend.  David  1'rovoost,  he  was  a  thorn  to  the  F.ng- 
lish,  who  hated  him  for  the  influence  he  wielded  over  the  Indians,  and  his 
success  among  them  as  a  trader,  by  what  they  termed  a  "  crooked  & 
pverse  wave."  It  is  recorded  that  Govert  Aertsen,  a  small  trader,  was 
obliged  to  carry,  in  1648,  for  his  better  protection  when  visiting  the  Connec- 
ticut Settlements,  a  certificate  from  the  Magistrates  of  New  Amsterdam 
that  he  was  not  Govert  Loockermans.  Our  New  England  friends  have 
since  learned  to  discriminate  better. 

By  his  first  wife  Govert  Loockermans1  had  issue  : 

2.  i.  Marritje"  [Maria  or  Mary],  born  Nov.  3,  1641,  in  the  ship 
Coninck  Davit  (King  David)  on  the  voyage  to  St.  Christopher  and  New 
Netherland  ;  f  bap.  Dec.  1,  1641  ;  m.  in  New  Amsterdam,  Nov  12, 
1664,^  Balthazar  Bavard,  of  Amsterdam,  son  of  Samuel  Bayard  and 
Anna  Stuyvesant.§     Issue; 

1.  Samuel  Bavard,  born  Sept.  20,  1665  ;  died  young. 

2.  Anaentje   [Ariaentie]  Bayard,  born  Nov.  18,  1667  ;  bap. 

Nov,  20,  1667  ;  m.  Oct.  26,   1691,  Samuel  Yerplanck,.soii 
of  Gelyn  Yerplanck  and  Hendrickje  Wessels. 

3.  Anna  Maria  Bayard,  born  March  6,  1670  ;  bap.  March  10, 

1670  ;  m.  in  New  York.  Oct.  28,  1697,  Augustus  Jay, ||  son 
of  Pierre  Jay,  of  La  Rochelle  in  France,  and  Judith  Francois. 

4.  Samuel  Bavard,  born  June   14,  1672;  bap.  June  16,  1672; 

no  further  account. 

5.  Judith  Bayard,  born  Jan.  31,  1677  ;  bap.  Feb.  7,  1677,  and 

died  on  the  10th  day  after  her  birth. 

6.  Jacobus  Bayard,  bap.   June    25,    1679;  m.  Dec.  22,  1703, 

Hillegond  de  Kay,  dau.  of  Capt.  Theunis  de   Kay  and  He- 
lena Yan  Brugh. 

*  Broadhead's  Hist,  of  New  York,  vol.  i,  p.  223,  401  ;  O'Callaghan's  Hist,  of  New  Netherland,  vol.  1,  p. 
142-344.  vol.  2,  p.  38;  Doc.  Rel.  to  Col.  Hist,  of  N.  Y..  vol.  1,  p.  432-453,  vol.  2,  p.  472.  O'Callaghan's 
Register  of  Ne«  Netherland  ;  Cat.  N.  Y.  Hist.  MSS.  Dutch,  p.  17,  18,  27,  28,  44,  46;  Cal.  N.  Y.  Hist. 
MSS.  English,  p.  6,  7,  28,  102-3-8,  216,  248  ;  Vincent's  Hist,  of  Delaware,  vol.  1.  p.  472  ;  N.  Y.  G.  and  B. 
RECORD,  vol.  5,  p.  69,  vol  7.  p.  123-4  ;  Valentine's  Manual  for  1852,  p.  398. 

t  N.  V.  (',.  and  K.  Record,  vol.  v.,  p.  60. 

t  From  the  family  Bible.     The  Dutch  Church  records  in  New  York  give  the  date  of  their  marriage  Oct. 

$  She  was  a  sister  of  Gov.  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  and  came  with  him  to  New  Amsterdam — then  a  widow — with 
her  three  sons.  Balthazar,  Nicholas  and  I'etrus.  She  m.  2d.  Oct.  14.  1656.  Nicholas  Verlet,  widower  of 
Susanna  C.illis.  and  was  again  a  widow  before  Jan.  19,  1683.  Her  son,  Petrus  Bayard,  become  a  Labadist, 
and  removed  to  the  Delaware. 

This  name  is  often  disguised  in  the  N   V  Dutch  Church  Records  as  Sjee. 


20  THE  LEISLER  FAMILY. 

7.  Govert  Bayard,  bap.  Nov.  4,  1682  ;  no  further  account. 

8.  Judith    Bayard,   bap.    May   23,   1685  ;  m.  March  5,   1722, 

Gerardus  Stuyvesant,  son  of  Nicholas  Stuyvesant  and 
Elizabeth  Van  Slechtenhorst. 

3.  ii.  Jannetie,3  born  Sept.  23,  1643;  bap.  Sept.  27,  1643;  m.  Feb. 
12,  1667,  Dr.  Hans  Kierstede,  son  of  Dr.  Hans  Kierstede  and  Sara 
Roelofs.     Issue  : 

1.  Hans  Kierstede,  bap.  Feb.  19,  1668;  m.  Oct.  1,  1696,  Dina 

Van  Schaick,  dau.  of  Arie  Cornelisen  Van  Schaick  and  Re- 
becca Idens. 

2.  Adriaentie  Kierstede,  bap.   April  8,   1670;  m.   Sept.  27, 

1693,  Dirck  Adolphszen  [De  Groof],  of  New  York,  son 
of  Adolph  Pieterszen  Van  der  Groeft  or  De  Groof  and  Aefje 
Dircks. 

3.  Cornelis  Kierstede,  bap.  Jan.  5,   1675;  m.  Sept.  9,  1703, 

Sarah  Elswaert  (Elsworth),  dau.  of  Clement  Elswaert  and 
Anna  Maria  Engelbrecht. 

4.  Jacobus  Kierstede,  bap.  April  14,  1677. 

5.  Anna  Elizabeth  Kierstede,  bap.  Dec.  17,  1679. 

6.  Sara  Catharyn  Kierstede,  bap.  Nov.  5,  1681. 

7.  Annetie  Kierstede,  bap.  May  24,  1684. 

8.  Marritje  [Maria],  bap.  Oct.  3,  1686;  m.  March   18,  1711, 

Pieter  Davids. 
By  his  second  wife  Govert  Loockermans1  had  issue  : 

4.  iii.  Jacob3,  bap.  March  17,  1652.  He  was  a  Physician,  joined  the 
Dutch  Church  in  New  York  Dec.  13,  1674,  and  in  Oct.,  1679,  was  a  resi- 
dent of  the  County  of  St.  Mary,  in  Maryland.  About  the  year  16S1  he 
removed  to  Easton,  Talbot  County,  Md.,  where  he  became  a  planter.  He 
married,  Jan  29,  167 3.  Helena  Ketin,  and  died  August  17,  1730.  Issue: 

5.  i.  Nicholas3,  born  Nov.  10,  1697;  in.  in  1721,  Sally,  dau.  of  Yin- 
cent  Emerson,  of  the  Grange  near  Dover,  Del.     Issue  : 

6.  i.   VINCENT*,  born  at   the  Grange  in  1722,  m.   1st,  Susannah , 

and  2d,  in  Feb.,  1774,  Elizabeth  Pryor,  dau.  of  John  Pryor,  of  Dover.     He 
died  at  Dover,  Aug.  26,  1785.     By  his  first  wife  had  issue : 

7.  i.  Vincent6,  who  married •,  and  had  two  daughters:  Elizabeth", 

who  m.  Thomas  Daw,  of  Philadelphia,  and ,  who  m.  Hon.  Nicho- 
las G.  Williamson,  of  Wilmington,  Del. 

By  his  second  wife,  Vincent  Loockermans4  had  issue  : 

8.  ii.  Nicholas",  born  Nov.  27,  1783;  died  March  20,  1850,  unmar- 
ried. 

9.  iii.  Elizabeth*,  born  Dec.  23,  1779;  no.  May  8,  1805,  Thomas 
Bradford,  of  Phila.,  son  of  Thomas  Bradford  and  Mary  Fisher.  He  was 
a  descendant  in  the  fifth  generation  of  William  Bradford,  the  first  Printer 
in  the  Middle  Colonies  of  British  America.*  He  was  born  at  Phila.,  Sept. 
11,  1781,  and  died  there  Oct.  25,  1851.  She  died  same  place  April  8, 
1842-!     Issue: 

1.  Vincent  Loockermans  Bradford,  born  Sept.  24,  1808. 
Lawyer  in  Phila.  m.  July  21,  1831,  Juliet  S.  Rev,  dau.  of 
Emanuel  Rey,  Esq.,  planter,  of  the  Island  of  St.  Martin. 
West  Indies. 

*  N.  Y.  G.  and  B.  Record,  vol.  iv.,  p.  187-8. 

t  Simpson's  Lives  of  Eminent  l'hiladelpliians,  p.  131. 


THE  LEISLER  FAMIL  V.  2  j 

2.  Elizabeth  Loockermans  Bradford,  born  Sept.  19,  1810; 

in.  Oct.  12,  1831,  Rev.  WilliamT.  Dwight,  son  of  Timothy 
Dwight,  D.I).  Sec  Hist,  of  the  Descendants  of  John 
Dwight,  vol.  1,  p.  205. 

3.  Benjamin   Rush    BRADFORD,  of  New  Brighton,  Beaver  Co., 

Penn.     111.  in  i860,  Margaret  Campbell,  of  Butler  Co.,  I'enn. 

4.  William  BRADFORD,  born  in  1815  ;  a  resident  (187 1)  of  Phila- 

delphia. 

5.  Thomas  Budd  Bradford,  born  in  1816.     He  was  a  Minister 

of  the  Gospel  at  Dover,  Del.,  and  twice  married.     The  name 
of  his  first  wife  we  are  unable  to  give.      His  second  wife  was 
Lucy  H.  Porter,  dau.  of  Dr.  Robert  R.   Porter,  of  Wilming- 
ton, Del.      He  died  at  Dover,  March  25,  187 1. 
The  account  of  Jacob  Loockermans''  and  his  descendants  is  mainly  com- 
piled from  Vincent's  History  of  the   State  of  Delaware,  vol.  1.,  p.  474  to 
477- 


The  materials  in  this  Sketch,  not  otherwise  indicated,  are  from 
the  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York,  and 
New  York  Wills  and  Conveyances. 


INDEX   TO    NAMES. 


Adolphsen,  see  De  Groof. 
Adriaensen,  18 
Aertsen,  19 
Allerton,  18 
Aniill,  10 
Arentsen,  18 

Bartels,  11 
Bayard,  14,  19,  20 
Bedlow,  17 
Beeckraan,  8 
Benckes,  11 
Blaquerd,  16 
Bogardus,  6 
Bradford,  20 
Brasher,  8 
Brewerton,  14 
Byvanck,  14 

Campbell,  21 
Carr,  13 
Claas,  16 
Coerten,  8 
Coorn,  18 
Corneliszen,  6 
Cregier,  18 
Cuyler,  14,  15 

Dankers,  1 1 
Davids,  20 
Davits,  16 
I  )avy,  20 
De  Groof,  20 
De  Hart,  7,  12 
De  Kay,  19 
De  Kleyn,  7,  11 
De  Labadie,  n 
De  I. a  Montagne,  18 
De  Lanoy,  8 
Dclavall,  13 
Denonville,  16 
De  Potter,  6 
1  )c  Riemer,  13 


Dervall,  17 

I  )ii<  ks,  20 
Dirckszen,  6 
I  )irkse,  6 
Donaldson,  11,  12 
Donchesen,  17 
Dongan,  10,  16 
Dunces,  17 
Dwight,  21 

Edsal,  8,  13 
Flberts,  5 
Klsworth,  20 
Emerson,  20 
luigelbrecht,  20 
Evertsen,  11 

Farmer,  14 
Fisher,  20 
Fonda,  16 
Francois,  19 
Fresneau,  14 

Gillis,  19 
Goewey,  16 

(louverneur,  8,  13,  14 
Grim  5 

Hamersly,  12 
Hardenbroeck,  1 7 
Hendricks,  6,  15 
Hermans,  11 
Hoffelsen,  5 
Hogenboom,  16 
Huggens,  see  De  Kleyn. 
Idens,  20 
Ingoldsby,  8,  13 

Jacobs,  15 

Jans,  6,  11,  18,  19 

Janszen,  5,  6,  11 
Jay.  19 
Jonas,  6 


24 


IXDEX   TO  NAMES. 


Ketin  20 
Kieft,  6,  17,  18 
Kierstede,  15,  20 
Kip,  15 

Lawrence,  8 

Leisler,  5,  7 

Lewis,  15 

Lispenard,  1 1 

Livingston,  9 

Loockermans,  5,  6,  15,  16,  17,  20 

Mauritz,  7,  12 
Milborne,  8,  9,  22,  13 
Muller,  16 
Meyer,  14 

Nicholson,  8 

Oothout.  16 

Tappegoya,  13 
Pasko,  7 
Pawling,  1 1 
Pearson,  1  7 
Pell,  7 
Pliillipse,  17 
Porter,  21 
Printz,  13 
Provoost,  14,  18 
Pryor,  20 

Reinders,  10,  14,  15 
Rev,  20 

Reynderste,  15 
Rhee,  14 
Richard,  12 
Riddle,  10,  1 1 
Robinson,  6,  1  r 
Rodenburg,  11 
Roelofs,  1 1,  20 
Rombouts,  6 
Rynders,  14,  15 

Schatts,  15 
Schudt,  16 
Schutt,  15 
Schuyler,  16,  17 
Selyns,  10 
Sharp,  13 
Sjee,  see  Jay. 
Sloughter,  8 
Sluyter,  1 1 


Spragg,  10,  n 
Staats,  8,  15,  17 
Steenwyck,  15 
Stephenszen,  7,  15 
Stoffelsen,  5 
Stuyvesant,  15,  19,  20 

Teller,  16,  17 
Temple,  10 
Ten  Broeck,  16 
Turck,  6 
Tymens,  5,6,  7,  10 

Van  Alen,  16 

Van  Brugh,  6,  11,  18,  19 

Van  Cortlandt,  14,  16,  17 

Van  Couwenhoven,  18 

Van  der  Gouw,  6 

Van  der  Grist,  15 

Van  der  Groeft,  20 

Van  der  Veen,  5,  6,  7,  11,  15 

Wan  Dyk.  1 1 

Van  Feurdeii,  8 

Van  Hartj-berge,  12 

Van  Xes,  16 

Van  Rensselaer,  17 

Van  Schaick,  20 

Van  Slechtenhorst,  17,  20 

Van  Tienhoven,  5 

Van  Twiller,  5,  6,  18 

Van  Wie,  16 

Wan  \Voert,  16 

Van  Wyck,  1  7 

Varick,  11 

Vaughtoa,  10,  11,  12 

Verbrugge,  6,  11 

Verleth,  1 1,  19 

W'nnelje,  8 

\erplanck,  19 

Verwejr,  16 

Visboom,  1 1 

Walters,  7,  11,  12 

Wendel,  12 

Wessels,  12,  13,  19 

Willemszen,  6 

Williams,  8 

Williamson,  20 

A\'inne,  16 

Wolfertsen,  see  Van  Couwenhoven. 

Wolsum,  7,  11 

Yates,  12 


